Description

L/S of a crowd of people standing in the snow. Various point of view shots from the back of a moving vehicle of horse drawn chariots racing along an icy track. M/S of a man raising the sail on a vehicle that looks like a cross between a sleigh and a catamaran. L/S of a frozen lake; ice skaters dodge out of the way of the ice catamarans.

M/S of a group of men on a wooden platform, one of them fires a starting pistol. L/S of three men pushing ice catamarans along the ice, when the catamarans get enough momentum to propel themselves along the men jump on board. L/S of catamarans racing across the ice.

L/S of a large palace, in the foreground a man and a woman walk on their skis towards the camera - the Prince and Princess. M/S of the Prince and Princess walking on a skis across the picturesque, snow covered Palace grounds. C/U of the Prince (Prince Gustave Adolphe). C/U of the Princess.